• Cameron Diaz is close to boarding director Ridley Scott’s dramatic thriller The Counselor, as a supporting character named Malkina. Michael Fassbender stars as a lawyer who gets pulled deep into the dangerous world of illegal drugs. Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, and Penelope Cruz will costar in the film, the first screenplay by famed novelist Cormac McCarthy, who penned the book No Country For Old Men. Expect to hear a lot more about this one… [Deadline]

• …and this one too: Matthew McConaughey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., and Terrence Howard are all eyeing roles in writer-director Lee Daniels’ history-based film The Butler, about Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker), the man who served in the White House from President Eisenhower through President Reagan. Oprah Winfrey will play Allen’s wife. [THR]

• Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler may be rivals on Parks and Recreation, but they’ll romance each other in They Came Together, a meta-romantic comedy from the duo’s Wet Hot American Summer director David Wain. (Yes, that’s the real title.) The film, written by Wain and Michael Showalter, will satirize typical rom-com tropes. It starts shooting this summer. [Variety]